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delethalize

delethalize verb: to make not lethal, or less lethal.

Verb

delethalize (third-person singular simple present delethalizes, present participle delethalizing, simple past and past participle delethalized)

  1. (transitive) to make not lethal, or less lethal
    • What was the type of injury sustained by the survivors and by folks who were injured, fatally, in order to delethalize aircraft?1959, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Civil Service Commission

Forms of delethalize

third-person singular presentdelethalizes
present participledelethalizing
past participledelethalized
pastdelethalized

Origin of delethalize

From de- + lethal + -ize.

Words formed from delethalize

Questions about delethalize

What does delethalize mean?
Delethalize means to make not lethal, or less lethal.
What part of speech is delethalize?
Delethalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of delethalize?
The past tense of delethalize is delethalized.

Words near delethalize in the dictionary

  1. deleteriousness
  2. deleters
  3. deletery
  4. deletes
  5. delethalization
  6. delethalize
  7. delethalized
  8. delethalizes
  9. delethalizing
  10. deletia
  11. deleting

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